LEARNERS TO PAY

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30274, 29 October 1963, Page 7

LEARNERS TO PAY

Conference Decisions Persons who derived a benefit from swimming clubs must ultimately be expected to pay for it, the annual conference <a the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association decided on Saturday. A remit from the Southland centre suggesting the abolition of the 2s affiliation fee for learner members received little support, and it was lost by a substantial margin. A move by Canterbury to have each swimmer charged la a year for overseas games travel was not supported. However, the conference decided to grant its council power to impose a levy for “special purposes” which would include games travel. Other Decisions Other decisions made by the conference after considering notices of motions included:— It was agreed to penalise any member, club or centre whose accounts remained unpaid after two months. The penalty would be decided by the council. A move by Mr G. S. Brockett (Bay of Plenty) that the penalty be suspension was rejected. A principle was established that only one registration fee be payable to the association fa one year by a swimmer, Irrespective of the number of elubs to which he belonged. This was to cater for university swimmers who were members of university clubs and also other clubs in their home towns.

An open women's 4 x 110 yards freestyle inter-centre relay. a junior boys’ freestyle inter-centre relay, and a junior girls’ inter-centre relay were added to the New Zealand championship programme. It was agreed that all relay teams should be named on the day of the event and that the substitution of only one swimmer would be permitted in the final of a relay event. The North Island v. South Island relays for the Stalag shields were abolished. The contests for the shields will now be held between Northern, Central. and Southern districts. This was decided because the North Island’s overwhelming strength was turning the events into processions.

At future national championships. additional finalists mav be named as emergencies and. according to times recorded in their heats, they may be admitted to the final should scratchings occur. The practice of giving standard badges to seniors who recorded times within a specified margin of the New Zealand record was discontinued. It was agreed that the badges, granted only to swimmers at the national championships, did not fill any real objective.